audio record interruption

[Guest]

I'm using PPT 2003 SP2. While recording audio using a mic during a slide
presentation, occasionally my taskbar will pop up for 2-3 seconds and then go
away. While this does not cause an interruption in the slide show, when I
play the finished presentation back with the recorded audio, the slideshow
shows the taskbar pop up and the narration starts over from the beginning of
the slide. For some reason PPT is recording the taskbar popup and this
interrupts the audio recording setting it back about 5 mins. Any ideas? I
have run taskmanager to see what might be running in the background and
besides the normal windows processes I also have Symantec running.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I'm using PPT 2003 SP2. While recording audio using a mic during a slide
presentation, occasionally my taskbar will pop up for 2-3 seconds and then go
away. While this does not cause an interruption in the slide show, when I
play the finished presentation back with the recorded audio, the slideshow
shows the taskbar pop up and the narration starts over from the beginning of
the slide. For some reason PPT is recording the taskbar popup

Probably not, because PowerPoint doesn't record anything but the audio and the
timings. It never records anything that happens on screen.

More likely something in the presentation is causing the popup to occur during a
screen show. If that's the case, it'll probably always happen at the same point
in the show. What's on the slide where this happens?

interrupts the audio recording setting it back about 5 mins. Any ideas? I
have run taskmanager to see what might be running in the background and
besides the normal windows processes I also have Symantec running.

Symantec is a company that sells lots of different programs. Might want to
mention which one this is. Someone may have experience with it.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Strange. Can you try playing the presentation on a different computer to see if the
problem follows along?

 

[Guest]

The slide presentation has nothing more than basic text with an ocasional
image. I have disabled Symantec Anti-virus and it does not fix the problem.
The interruption to powerpoint is intermittent. It never happens in the same
place twice. Again, whenever the interuption occurs it resets the recorded
audio to the beginning of the slide and when the slide transitions to the
next slide, the audio gets cut off. Anyone else suffered from this strange
problem?

 

[Austin Myers]

Any chance you have an IM client running?



Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCMedia, PFCPro, PFCExpress
http://www.pfcmedia.com

 

[Guest]

Ok, I finally discovered that there was a process from HP running in the
background that checked for driver updates. Killing that process has fixed
this entire problem. Thanks for your ideas.